Saint Joseph Catholic Church

“A rigorous assessment of both the opportunities and the risks associated with AI should be seen not as an obstacle to progress, but as an act of responsibility,” said Msgr. Marco Formica, counselor of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. “This is especially important given the widening gap between the rapid pace of technological change and the slower development of national and international norms, institutional frameworks, and safeguards needed to address its implications.”

It was the first time in 650 years that the cincture, housed at Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, was venerated in Serbia. Other Marian cincture relics are venerated in Syria and in Prato, Italy.

Reflecting on the extraordinary outpouring of devotion in Belgrade and the enthusiasm for Pope Leo’s visit in Spain, Serbian politician Jovan Palalić contributed an article to the Vatican newspaper in which he asked, “Could the scenes witnessed on the streets of Belgrade and in Spanish cities perhaps be signs of a new era [of Christian faith]?”

“States should take notice that they cannot require Americans to abandon their religious beliefs in the name of woke gender ideology,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon. “For more than a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients in their last days. New York’s law would force these religious women to choose between their faith and their license if they wish to continue serving the dying.”

The ruling struck down licensing, admitting-privilege, and complication-plan requirements, as well as pre-abortion requirements, abortion-report requirements, and a physician-only law.

Pope Leo XIV greeted children of Vatican employees today in Paul VI Audience Hall and advised them and their families to limit their phone use (video).

Pope Leo XIV visited the headquarters of the World Food Programme today (video) and linked the persistence of hunger to the weakening of multilateralism and the “bureaucratization of solidarity.”